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Rotondi is considered at this point the leading candidate for the state's second-in-command executive post, along with Evelyn Murphy, who served as secretary of environmental affairs under former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis . Both seem to be aiming for the liberal delegates pledged to support Dukakis in his attempt to regain the governorship...
Meanwhile, the army commanders stepped up their pressure in favor of Magaña's election. On Tuesday, D'Aubuisson and other political leaders were summoned to high-command headquarters and bluntly warned that the military might mount a coup if the right did not go along with the army's demands. Faced with that ultimatum, the politicians quickly hammered together the deal that led to the election of Magaña and his three Vice Presidents...
DIED. W.R. Burnett, 82, writer of 34 taut novels (Little Caesar, The Asphalt Jungle, The Dark Command), many of which he then honed into classic screenplays; in Santa Monica, Calif. A taste of Chicago-during the '20s gave Burnett a gritty sensibility that marked his work over half a century and provided memorable roles to such tough-guy stars as Humphrey Bogart (High Sierra) and Alan Ladd (This Gun for Hire). Not long ago, he observed of life: "You're going to have trouble and you die-that much you know. And there's not much else...
...type a copy of his/her program to the screen so I could see it. This, though not specifically part of the test, is an integral part of use, and spelled out quite well in a number of references that all people taking the test should have read (The command to type is "type," incidentally...
...ENTER TO GROW in wisdom, depart to serve thy "country and thy kind," the gates of the Yard command. "Expand thy ego ad infinitum, and clutter thy house with Veritas collectibles from the Coop," is the message that often creeps out from between the lines. And a lot of people buy the whole business, assuming that they have achieved the American dream merely by happing into John Harvard...